Indonesia and the Xinjiang internment camps

In “Elite maneuvering, the Uyghur crisis, and Indonesian politics,” Tom Pepinsky annotates a Twitter thread that looks at the Indonesian government’s difficulties in criticizing the Chinese government, and “explains why Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s largest Muslim mass organization, has remained silent on the issue.”

She made the remarks at a routine press briefing on December 24 when responding to recent media reports in the United States and some other Western countries about the alleged “surveillance, detention and assimilation” in Xinjiang and other Muslims-populated regions in China.

“Those sensational news reports are irresponsible, either based on hearsay or citing false or fictional sources,” Hua said, adding that some Western politicians and media outlets have made a “fundamental mistake” by defining China’s efforts of fighting terrorism and upholding stability as specifically targeted at Uyghurs or Muslims.

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A worker waters the flowers and plants in front of the local government building in Qingdao, Shandong Province, on the October 1 National Day. In the background, the Chinese propaganda characters can be translated as “[Xi Jinping] Thought on Socialism With Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” and “Striving for the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Dream.”